Residence Life Coordinator Job at Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA

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  • Young Harris College
  • Young Harris, GA

Job Description

Residence Life Coordinator

The Residence Life Coordinator (RLC) position is a full-time 11-month live-in position with meal plan which reports directly to the Director of Residence Life. The RLC is responsible for all administrative educational and supervisory tasks of assigned residential areas. While reporting directly to the Director of Residence Life the RLC would be expected to supervise Resident Assistants in their residential area and assist the Director and Assistant Director with retention efforts departmental initiatives and programming processes with students. Applicants who would enrich the diversity of the campus community are strongly encouraged to apply.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Provides leadership for all aspects of our residence life program and community comprised of approximately 750 students living in eight traditional suite-style halls and campus apartments.

Assists the Director to develop effective policies and procedures to ensure a safe healthy and inclusive developmental learning community among the various residential areas of the College.

Assists with the recruitment selection training and supervision of at least 10 part-time Residence Life Student staff positions.

Helps create a positive community environment in which students assume responsibility for their actions and creates a strong community that shows appreciation and respect for diversity.

Assists the Assistant Director of Residence Life and Housing Operations with the administration of a residential area that includes facility inspections moves housing chart upkeep key audits and maintenance referrals.

Engage with students daily and in an ongoing way by living in a furnished apartment within the residence halls and using the provided meal plan to eat meals in the dining hall.

Manages and maintains housing databases & reports

Assist the Director with departmental assessment efforts including satisfaction surveys and student retention.

Serves as liaison between Facilities Campus Police Dining Services and the Student Development Office as they relate to maintenance student events projects and initiatives and residential issues.

Supervises the residential programming model of their area including program approval reviewing program proposals providing program feedback tracking program requirements managing programming budget making programming purchases and implementing largescale departmental programming.

Provides retention support by working to identify students whose behaviors indicate a lack of academic success strategies and refer students for academic skills assistance including tutoring counseling and/or career guidance.

Investigates and responds to concerns and complaints promptly that provides accurate information and good public relations/customer service.

Participates in the rotating on-call system for the residential area responding to emergencies on evenings and weekends. Maintains a 20-minute response time to the duty area. This may include when the college is closed (i.e. Fall Break Holidays Winter Break Spring Break and Summer).

Complete any other administrative tasks duties or responsibilities assigned by the Director of Residential Living or Vice President for Student Development

Knowledge Skills and Abilities Required:

Reliable consistent attendance is a requirement and essential function of all positions.

An established record of excellent leadership and mentoring relationships with students collegial relationships with staff and faculty and strong written and oral communications skills particularly with students and their parents are preferred.

Outstanding organizational and management skills are essential for success in this role.

Employees are expected to be punctual and dependable to meet the needs of their department and the College

Employees are expected to work 40 hours a week

Ability to use Microsoft Office Suite: Word Excel and PowerPoint.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervises approximately 10-15 Residence Life student staff members while adhering to the Colleges policies and applicable laws. Supervisory responsibilities include planning assigning and directing work appraising performance addressing complaints resolving problems and assessing the effectiveness of programs.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree and two to four years related experience in increasingly responsible and professional roles related to residence life student involvement and/or student life areas.

Preferred Qualifications

Masters degree in College Student Personnel Higher Education Counseling or another related field. Experience with small liberal arts colleges either professionally or educationally.

Working Conditions and Physical Effort:

Requires the ability to sit for long periods with frequent interruptions

Requires getting up and down from chairs climbing stairs and reaching/bending

Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work

Requires talking hearing and seeing as important elements for completing assigned tasks

Requires occasionally lifting and/or moving objects weighing up to 20 pounds.

Requires the use of various electronic tools

Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes

Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning negotiating instructing persuading or speaking with others: and responding appropriately to constructive feedback from management.

Application Process

Applications must include a cover letter resume or current CV and contact information for at least three professional references. Applicants must apply online using the Colleges HR portal. Review of applications will begin immediately.

Applicants who would enrich the diversity of the campus community are strongly encouraged to apply. EOE M/F/D/V

Young Harris College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race color religion sex age national origin or ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status genetic information sexual orientation or any other basis protected by federal state or local laws. All persons involved in the operations of the College are prohibited from engaging in such discrimination.


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Job Tags

Full time, Part time, Summer work, Live in, Work at office, Local area, Immediate start, Weekend work, Afternoon shift,

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